Now anyone who is into cake decorating will know all about Paris Cutler and her amazing company
Planet Cake. The first book I brought on cake decorating was the
Planet Cake A beginner's guide to decorating incredible cakes. The pages are filled with beautiful cakes for all ages and for all levels of skill and I love love love the recipes in them. And after looking at their website, blogs and after watching the tv series I was absolutely determined to attend the Planet Cake school and this was the year it was going to happen. After arriving back in Australia from a church trip to Vanuatu I logged onto Facebook and saw a post about the
Beginners Figurines course and enrolled a few moments later.
From here the countdown began and I can honestly say I was more excited than a kid throwing their Christmas sack at their parents in the attempt to wake them for present opening (not that I do that anymore...). The day finally arrived and I arrived an hour early (partly because I was super excited but mostly because I had no idea where Balmain was situated!) and as I gazed through the Planet Cake shop front my heart leaped for joy, my stomach was crowded with flittering butterflies and I just wanted to wriggle my toes with excitement! After following Planet Cake for some time online and on tv I was in front of their headquarters, I honestly felt like I was waiting to enter a world of super stars. During my course I even found out that Paris was in the building (squeal!!) but you know whats even greater?!?! I actually met one of the Planet Cake designers,
Antony, and he talked to me about a cake design he was working on- like we knew each other. This completely made my day and I was straight to posting my awesome brush with a celebrity on Facebook- life was complete!
I waited in the front room surrounded by beautiful cakes, twinkling fairy lights and candy striped walls, mesmerised by the surrounding beauty and waiting for reality to kick in, I was in cake decorating heaven.
In my beginner figurines class I got to make some seriously cute kawaii inspired little characters which I love so much I can't bear to part with them so they are sitting on my shelf. Debbi Lee was a fabulous teacher and the class was very well organised with printed notes going into very specific detail including the weight for each part of the characters.
Now I'm not going to lie, this class was really stressful for me because there were so many amazing things to cram into one day but I finished and am really happy with how my lil characters turned out and I am looking forward to making many more that I will actually use on cakes I promise!
Here are the characters we made as part of the course, we followed a set style but changed elements of the characters clothing to make them a bit more personal.
Click through for more images of the characters I made at Planet Cake- and if you get a chance to enrol in the course you will really enjoy it. It's a fabulous introduction into working with fondant and a super start to working on figurines.
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